Blog by Tag: Art and Design

The topic in art this week was observational drawings with coloured pencils. This helped the children develop their mark making skills whilst concentrating on colour, shape and size. They drew some beautiful, bright sunflowers on big paper.

The children are continuing to enjoy reading the ‘Naughty Bus’ by Jan and Jerry Oke. This week they decided to make their own bus so they could travel around London seeing all the famous landmarks. So far they’ve visited Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben. They are having lots…

We have been creating collages using different strips of paper and pictures. The collages represent natural features such as the bark of the tree.

This week we have been looking for patterns around us including patterns in stories and songs. The children used chalks to create different patterns including spots, swirls, lines and zigzags. We then created patterns using peg boards and numicon. Together we also used lummi sticks to repeat…

We started our new DT unit by making catapults. It was a very tricky task and we worked so hard to make brilliant working models.

This week the children have enjoyed messy play and explored different materials including shaving foam, oats, paint and clay. They have used their investigative skills to feel, pour and fill containers using oats. They have created shapes and patterns with paint and shaving foam and made…

This week and last, we have been experimenting with different effects that can be made using wax crayons and felt-tip pens.  The children have made individual pictures and investigated rubbings of natural materials in small groups.  They have also worked on larger scale pieces.…

We created our own printing tools using clay, pine cones, shells. It was very messy but fantastic fun.

We visited to church to see the crib and the three wise men visiting baby Jesus.  We talked about how the 3 kings are also called ‘The Magi’ and we spoke about the importance of the star that they followed to find baby Jesus.  One of our little boys suggested we sing the ‘Little Baby Jesus’ song…

Year 5 have been exploring printmaking.

After looking at the work of Andy Warhol, the children designed their own stencil based around a Christmas theme.

We are going to use our stencils to create wonderful Christmas cards.

Physical Development, Expressive Art & Design

The children are using their fine motor skills to decorate wreaths, Christmas trees and snowmen this week. They are also wrapping gifts for under the tree and making magical reindeer food bags. 

Year 1- Art-Painting

This week Year 1 have been looking at the artist Piet Mondrian a Dutch painter. They created their own pieces of artwork using primary colours.